The Griffin

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 11.4 × 11.4 cm (4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.386, no. 494, State only

Accession Number

1946.21.141

Artists / Makers

Israhel van Meckenem (artist) German, c. 1445 - 1503

Martin Schongauer (artist after) German, c. 1450 - 1491

Image Use

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Provenance

Eldridge R. Johnson [1867-1945], Moorestown, NJ; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3 April 1946, no. 62); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1946; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Johnson, Eldridge Reeves
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 200, repro.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 200.

1990: Russell 1990, no. 117.